African Guernica Displayed Alongside Picasso's Masterpiece in Madrid
The painting "African Guernica" by late South African artist Dumile Feni, created in 1967, is now on display at Madrid's Reina Sofía museum in the exact spot where Picasso's Guernica was first exhibited. It is part of a new series titled "History Doesn't Repeat Itself, But It Does Rhyme." The work explores themes of violence and racist tyranny.
Piece by late South African artist Dumile Feni is part of new series History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, But It Does Rhyme On the second floor of the Reina Sofía, in the very spot where Picasso’s Guernica was first exhibited when it arrived in the Madrid museum 34 years ago, there now hangs a smaller, near-namesake of the Spanish artist’s most famous work.While African Guernica, which was drawn by the late South African artist Dumile Feni in 1967, may lack the scale of Picasso’s masterpiece, its depth, anger and unnerving juxtaposition of man and beast, light and dark, and innocence and cruelty, are every bit as disturbing. Continue reading...